Crime fiction migration : crossing languages, cultures and media /

Crime fiction migration : crossing languages, cultures and media /

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Author / Creator:	Gregoriou, Christiana, 1978- author.
Imprint:	London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017. ©2017
Description:	196 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Advances in stylistics Advances in stylistics.
Subject:	Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism. Crime in literature. Crime in mass media. Crime in literature. Crime in mass media. Detective and mystery stories. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11315875

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ISBN:	9781474216524 1474216528 9781474216548
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Crime narratives form a large and central part of the modern cultural landscape. This book explores the cognitive stylistic processes in prose and in audiovisual fictional crime 'texts'. It examines instances where such narratives find themselves, through popular demand, 'migrating' - meaning that they cross languages, media formats and/or cultures. In doing so, Crime Fiction Migration proposes a move from a monomodal to multimodal approach to the study of crime fiction. Examining original crime fiction works alongside their translations, adaptations and remakings proves instrumental in understanding how various semiotic modes interact with one another. The book analyses works such as We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Killing trilogy and the reimaginings of plays such as Shear Madness and films such as Funny Games. Crime fiction is consistently popular and 'on the move' - witness the spate of detective series exported out of Scandinavia, or the ever popular exporting of these shows from the USA. This multimodal and semiotically-aware analysis of global crime narratives expands the discipline and is key reading for students of linguistics and criminology."-- "Explores how crime narratives carry meaning when they 'travel' from one place to another, crossing the boundaries of the language, culture and medium in which they were created"--

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Summary:	Crime narratives form a large and central part of the modern cultural landscape. This book explores the cognitive stylistic processing of prose and audiovisual fictional crime 'texts'. It also examines instances where such narratives find themselves, through popular demand, 'migrating' - meaning that they cross languages, media formats and/or cultures. In doing so, Crime Fiction Migration proposes a move from a monomodal to a multimodal approach to the study of crime fiction. Examining original crime fiction works alongside their translations, adaptations and remakings proves instrumental in understanding how various semiotic modes interact with one another. The book analyses works such as We Need to Talk About Kevin , The Killing trilogy and the reimaginings of plays such as Shear Madness and films such as Funny Games . Crime fiction is consistently popular and 'on the move' - witness the spate of detective series exported out of Scandinavia, or the ever popular exporting of these shows from the USA. This multimodal and semiotically-aware analysis of global crime narratives expands the discipline and is key reading for students of linguistics, criminology, literature and film.
Physical Description:	196 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781474216524 1474216528 9781474216548